What is the greatest game in this genre?What is your favorite, even?Metroidvanias thread.
They're all the same game so I guess I'll just go by setting and protag likability and that winner goes to nine sols so far.
The big 4 are >SotNThe godfather of all metroidvanias, the one game every good metroidvania takes as a base but hardly ever comes close to reach its glory, you must play it out of respect.>Ender LiliesA new classic and a worthy spiritual successor of SotN, beautifully crafted.>Rabi-RibiThe gameplay above all else with this one, it can adapt to any player from the most casual to the most masochistic hardcore and give them what they are looking for: FUN>Nine SolsPerfectly balanced, the game sets an impossibly high bar for new metroidvanias, good story, good combat, good exploration, good music.
>>730629498What game?
>>730629498La-Mulana. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
>>730629498My favorite is probably Blasphemous.Shame they fucking butchered the sequel to be "accessible"
la mulana is the only good one
How come there has been a castlevania metroidvania but not a metroid metroidvania
>>730632165This.Super Metroid set the foundation, SotN was a good iteration of it, but La-Mulana took the genre to its extreme. No other game has ever been as daring as that fucking monument.
>tried Gato Roboto>linear and god awful artstyle>tried Shadow Complex>boring as sinpersonally I'm taking a break from the genre>>730632331Zexion and Axiom Verge
>>730632530No I mean how come Metroid hasn't made a Metroidvania game
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>>730632239I keep hearing this, explain why.All I know is you get 3 main weapons now.Cause I quite liked the first but haven't picked up the second yet.
>>730632331the fuck does this even mean anon?>>730632575Oh.Ok.So you are retarded.Never mind, kill yourself.
did you know this game was a first person metroidvania made in 1996 a year before SOTN was released?
>>730632736Combat is faster because "DURR COMBAT TOO SLOW" so now all the deliberate weight and heft behind your swings are INSTANTplatforming is easier and floatier because "DURR MOVEMENT TOO SLOW, PLATFORMING TOO HARD" and now the deliberate speed and weight are faster and more aligned with farted out anime slop, much like the fucking artstyle that was ruined for budget. B1 is this sick atmospheric contemplative type game where the player is absorbed into the worldB2 is an apology for that
>>730632575Metroid is a space jellyfish, not enough fingers to make metroidvanias.
>>730633034Metroid can type just fine, she'd rather be a fat pregnant bitch
>using the term "M*troidvania" to describe action-adventure games in the year 2026ISHYGDDT
>>730629498Can we get a better name than this good god
>>730633554>>730634250hollow-likes
>>730632530Neat mapI should check out more Puzzlevanias and Metroidbrainias
>>730630014>The godfather of all metroidvanias, the one game every good metroidvania takes as a base but hardly ever comes close to reach its glory, you must play it out of respect.You mean the game that took Super Metroid as a base?
>>730635857You're treading dangerous ground here anonSuper Metroid > SOTN though
>>730635857he said godfather not grandfather
>>730635925Yeah but Super Metroid is the base, not SotN. SotN doesn't really do anything new other than introduce a bunch of poorly implemented RPG stat nonsense that almost no metroidvanias copied - all it did was create the precedent that Metroid doesn't have a monopoly on the gameplay style and that it's now a genre and not just a singular franchise.
Metroidvania was a perfectly good way to describe these games until people insisted that Hollow Knight not only was one but was the best one. Now it's just a fancy word for a side scrolling action adventure.
>>730635897I'm gonna give a genuine hot take, Super Metroid controls kinda eh. Way too floaty.
